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Your License on the Line

Your authority to practice comes from a state statute — the Nurse Practice Act — enforced by a board of nursing, not by your employer. Open each credential to see exactly what it authorizes, then rule on eight situations that send new nurses to the board. Choose the action you would actually take.

1 · The credential ladder — tap one

Pearl. Institutional policy can narrow your scope but can never widen it. If a hospital policy permits something your Nurse Practice Act does not, the policy loses — and the board, not your manager, holds your license.

2 · Situation deck

What this credential legally authorizes

Ruling

Pick an action in the situation deck and the board’s reasoning appears here.

License risk

Nothing ruled on yet.